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Collaborative Book Celebration

Date

03/09/20

On Thursday, March 5, Department of Anthropology faculty, students and friends gathered at the Author's Corner of the Illini Bookstore for a very special event: the collaborative celebration of faculty book achievements.

Professor Brenda M Farnell, Head of Department, introduced a stunning number of fifteen books and set the tone, by offering a number of common questions, such as the motivation behind writing a book, publishing challenges, especially relative to career stages, but also the theoretical and practical relevance of these books to contemporary reader audiences.

The event concluded with eager questions from graduate students about authoring and publishing, an enthusiastic acknowledgment of the research accomplishments from members of the department and a commitment to make such celebrations an annual tradition.

Special thanks to Jeongsu Shin for her help in organizing and capturing the event.

Professor Fennell of the Department of Anthropology presented an invited paper on the New Philadelphia Archaeological Project under the tile “Resilience and Racism in a 19th Century American Heartland: New Philadelphia and the Vagaries of Prejudice.”